isn't always set to an integer value when it's defined.

[ 960406 ] unblock signals in threads

although the changes do not correspond exactly to any patch attached to
that report.

Non-main threads no longer have all signals masked.

A different interface to readline is used.

The handling of signals inside calls to PyOS_Readline is now rather
different.

These changes are all a bit scary!  Review and cross-platform testing
much appreciated.

[Bug #925107] Make .readline() consider self.stop.  This makes read() and readline() very similar, so they're refactored into _read.  Patch by Johannes Gijsbers.
2.3 bugfix candidate.

Rearrange code for writable() case to make the parallel logic clearer

Fixes SF #984290.

a typo.

Patch from Mark Hammond:

bdist_wininst attempts to use the correct MSVC runtime for the current
version of Python. This doesn't work correctly when --target-version
is set. In that case, bdist_wininst still uses the *current*
sys.version (ie, 2.4) rather than the version specified as
--target-version. Thus, the msvc7 runtime based executable stub is
*always* used.

This patch "hard-codes" knowledge of earlier Python versions,
providing the correct result when Python 2.4 is used to build Python
2.3 and earlier distributions.

Remove the short variant (-v) of the --target-version command line
options, it conflicts with the --verbose/-v standard distutils switch.

the checkin.

Windows (XP at least ;).  Test in this order: echo, daytime, domain.

* Add a test case that would have caught it.

  for lists of mixed types.
* Test that sort works.

* Make ConversionSyntax signals get trapped by default.

* Added a recipe section.

* Make capitals default part of DefaultContext

This serves to made the context representation more useful (the names in
match the names out).

Removed the link to ReXX.  That document did not shed add anything to
information already in the spec.

Further tighten the public API to improve usability:

* Emax and Emin are set through Context().  Their defaults are set in the
  DefaultContext, so there is no need to expose DEFAULT_MAX_EXPONENT
  and DEFAULT_MIN_EXPONENT.

* The string functions isnan() and isinfinity() were only used internal to
  the module and were not among the test cases.  External use cases are
  served by the Decimal constructor.  So, made these private.